Installing from CD

[gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:59:44 +1000, gabrielle harrison and Paul van den  
Bergen <gabpaul at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:37:57 +1000, Ignazio Palmisano  
> <ignazio_io at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>> gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen wrote:
>>> what is odd is that it seems to be downloading most of the stuff from  
>>> the net not the cd...
>>
>> Maybe that depends on your sources.list file? I tried to update from  
>> the cdrom in the following way:
>>
>> apt-cdrom add
>>
>> then disabled each line apart from the newly added cdrom line
>> and just ran a complete update from Synaptic. It worked nicely apart  
>> from the fact that synaptic (and adept and aptitude) found the package  
>> database locked on the next restart :-) but that was probably due to a  
>> corrupted image...
>> HTH,
>> Ignazio
>
> .... why didn't I think of that....
>
> trying it now (synaptic complains of broken packages... but seems to be  
> OK ish)
>

disabled everything but the CDROM in synaptic and marked upgrades -  
deleted a whole bunch of stuff, added about 5 packages. then nothing

at the command line...
# apt-cdrom add
Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/
Unmounting CD-ROM
Waiting for disc...
Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter
Mounting CD-ROM...
Identifying.. [d251c204c5513e9470c11bf645950d27-2]
Scanning disc for index files..
Found 2 package indexes, 0 source indexes and 1 signatures
This disc is called:
'Kubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060531)'
Copying package lists...gpgv: Signature made Wed 31 May 2006 13:33:59 EST  
using DSA key ID FBB75451
gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key  
<cdimage at ubuntu.com>"
Reading Package Indexes... Done
Writing new source list
Source list entries for this disc are:
deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060531)]/ dapper  
main restricted
Unmounting CD-ROM...Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your  
set.
beetlejuice:/home/bulwynkl# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
   cpp cpp-4.0 g++ g++-4.0 gcc gcc-4.0 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.0-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.


*sigh*



-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Chance favours the prepared mind